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According to the memorandum of understandings between Israel and Hamas, the self-declared "security belt" that Israel established along the Gaza border is no longer in existence.http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/162422#.UK6fe2crKq4
Tsssk, terwijl ze minimaal de controle over de Philadelphi route hadden moeten hernemen in de diplomatieke onderhandelingen, zodat Israel zelf weer de controle heeft over de grenssmokkelovergangen tussen Gaza en Egypte.

The other choice is to destroy Hamas. To accomplish this Israel
will need to invade Gaza and remain in place. It will have to kill or
imprison thousands of terrorists, send thousands more packing for Sinai,
and then spend years patrolling the streets of Gaza and arresting
terrorists just as it does today in Judea and Samaria.

“The only solution to this recurring problem is for the
international community and the media, once and for all, to expose the
Hamas strategy, to condemn it, and to deny Hamas the diplomatic and
media victory it seeks to achieve by its double war crimes.”

“The intelligence aspect of Israel’s strikes has shaken
Hamas, no matter how swaggering its bravado. To lose your chief of
staff, Jabari, on day one of a mini-war exposes a massive intelligence
vulnerability. To see many of your key long-range missile locations
pinpointed and targeted underlines the extent to which Israel has
penetrated Hamas’s command and communications networks.